Improvement in harness-saddles



V. BURST.

Harness Saddles. N0. 125,011. PatentedMarch26,l872.

UNITED STATEs VALENTINE Bo'asT,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

y IMPROVEMENT IN H ARNSS-SADDLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,011, dated March 26, 1872.

To all 'whom it may concern:

. Be itknown that I, VALENTINE BoRsT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication, in which drawing- Figure l is a vertical section lengthwise of the saddle in the line l l of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a cross-section from front to rear of the saddle in the line a: w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section in the line yy of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a crosssection in the line z z of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a cross-section iu the line z z ofl Fig. l. Fig. 6 is a top view of the center of the saddle, the metal frame and wooden mountings being left bare.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to harness-saddles, and embodies several novel features, one of' which consists iu the manner in which the Wooden mountings are fitted and secured to the frame, whereby I am enabled to fit them snugly and accurately to the frame. The summit or apex ofthe frame, at the bearings where the cantel and check-hook are attached, is raised above the adjacent parts of the frame, and the wooden mountin gs are cut away at the parts which correspond to the positions of the said bearings, leaving only a narrow continuous strip of wood where the llnountin gs extend past the bearings, whereby I am enabled to bend the wooden mountin gs with facility to make them conform to the irregular shape of the metal frame on which they are to be fitted. One or both of' said bearings are made to project over the rest of the frame, along a portion of their ends, so that the edges of the wooden mountings, at the place where they are cut off, can be sprung under the projecting edges of the bearings, so as to confine the separated edges of the wooden mountings to the metal frame. These elevated bearings can be plated so as to have an ornamental appearance, and

f the jockey can be omitted without offense to the eye. Another feature consists iu animproved cantel, which, instead of ext-ending across the saddle, as heretofore, stops at the place where it is secured to its bearings. The

half-cantel thus made has a metallic mount-l ing, by which the cantel can be firmly fastened to the frame without injuring the wood ofthe cantel. The ends of the metal saddle-frame are made with an under shoulder, to receive a perforated sheet-metal extension, to which the flap is riveted, the sheet .metal making a iush joint with the metal frame'on the under side. The central part ofthe flap is connected to the sheet-metal extension, and produces a smooth iiush surface on the upper side, because its upper edge comes against the square end ofl the metal frame. Another novel feature consists in removable bearings for fastening the terrets to the saddle. These bearings extend over the back-baud channel, and have been heretofore m ade permanent parts of the saddle-frame. l have invented a mode of making them removable by forming grooves, or their equivalents, iu the sides of such channel and sliding the bearings into their places, where they are secured by the leather mount-ings and the terrets when the parts are put together. The terrets are made with tapped shanks, so as to form nuts, by which the terrets and bearingplates are secured to each other.

The letter A designates the metallic saddleframe 5 and B B, the wooden mountings, which are cut away for a portion of' their width to enable me to fit them to the edges of the elevated bearings O O of the frame. By elevating these bearings the cantel D and checkhook E are allowed to have a more convenient and better support than when the bearings are level with the rest of the frame; and, furthermore, by raising these bearings, which occur at the summit of the saddle, I am enabled to lit the wooden mountin gs more snugly, and with greater ease, to the frame, by cutting away so much of their width as is required to m ake room for the bearin gs, the wooden mountings and the raised bearings being left flush with each other. sist in holding the wooden mountings down to the frame by causing their edges to project over the adjacent parts of the frame, as is shown in the front edge of' the check-hook bearing, Fig. 3, and springing the cut-out edges F F of the wooden mountings under the projections. By these means the wooden mountings are fitted with facility and exactness to the metal frame, and held securely,l

I also use the bearings to asceive a screw, e, which goes up into it through the bearing C from beneath. l The ends of the band-plate d extend on each side beyond the cantel' and over the saddle-frame, to which its ends are secured by the additional fastenin gs f. When the jockeyis omitted the band-plate d andthe exposed part ot' the bearings C can loe plated. That part of the metal frame A which is sunken to form the back-band channel is provided at its end, on its under side,

. with a rabbet and shoulder, G, which receives the end of a sheet-metal or other elastic pro longation, which is securely fastenedto the rabbet of the frame. This prolongation H is perforated to allow the ilap I to be fastened down smoothly to it. The square end ot' the frame A, on its upper surface, is met by the end of the middle part of the flap I, which is fastened to the elastic plate H, which part of the Hap is slitted from the outer parts of the flap, (see Fig. 1,) and is bent down to the plate II, so as to form acontinnation of the backband channel. The bearings of the terrets J consist of removable plates K, arranged to slide over the back-band channel by a tongue and groove, or a dovetailed joint, or their equivalents, into connection with the'sides of the back-band channel of the metal frame A, the sides of said channel being made higher at the places of connection, if desired, to obtain facility of access to the joint, as is shown in Fig. l, where those parts are a little elevated for that purpose. The shanks L of the terrets are tapped to form nuts, which receive screws M that rise from the bearingplates K, being lemon' either xed thereto, as shown in Fig. 5, or passing up through the plate, as is shown in Fig. 4. This mode of securing the terretsto the'saddle is more simple and efficient than the old mode, by which the screw was made a permanent part of the terret, and was screwed down into the saddle-frame. The tapped terret is more easily made, is less liable to become broken, and can be more snugly tted than by the old mode; the jockey N forming a sufticient washer for the connection, and forming, also, a fastening whereby, in combination with the terret and the vscrew M, the bearingplate is securelyheld in place without being liable to slip out of its joint.

I have shown two methods of connecting the bearing-plates for the terrets to the saddleframe. One ot' these consists (see Fig. 4,) in sliding the plate into the joint lengthwise of the saddle-frame, and the other in slidin git in cross-wise. Both of these methods are also shown in Fig. l.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the elevated bearin gs C with the wooden mountin gs B, arrar ged, as described, so that the said mountings are recessed and iitted around said bearings, and also secured under their projecting edges, substantially as descril'ied.l

2. The elastic prolongation H, arranged and combined, by a rabbet, with the under surface of the ends of the saddle-frame in continuation of the back-band channel, substantially as described.

3. The removable bearin g-plates K, arran gd over the back-band channel and connected with the saddle-frame by sliding connections, substantially as described.

This specification signed by me this 27th day of January, 1872.

VALENTINE BORST.`

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, C. WAHLERs. 

